Review Number: 2049 Publish date: Thursday, 19 January, 2017 Author: Ritika Prasad ISBN: 9781107084216 Date of Publication: 2015 Price: £19.99 Pages: 326pp. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publisher url: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/south-asian-history/tracks-change-railways-andeveryday-life-colonial-india?format=HB Place of Publication: Cambridge Reviewer: Aparaj...

Operating suburban trains on existing railways has been highly valued in China due to the advantages of activating railway resources, reducing construction costs and improving overall transportation efficiency. As a result, it is proposed that 'operating railways' key task urban rail transit network. Recently, south section Xinyi-Changxing Railway experienced low passenger freight volume, idle ...

News from the archives The final part of article published in two previous issues. Let us remind that 1910 experienced railway manager Nikolai Petrovich Verkhovsky presented 8 th Department Imperial Russian Technical Society book «Railway Confusion» written by him, dedicated to comprehensive solution a wide range pressing issues organising work railways. In third this issue, emphasis is on func...

Railway signaling is now since more than 25 years the subject of successful industrial application of formal methods in the development and verification of its computerized equipment. However the evolution of the technology of railways signaling systems in this long term has had a strong influence on the way formal methods can be applied in their design and implementation. At the same time impo...

Özet When compared with the other transportation systems, railway systems are economical, safer and more environment friendly. Despite all these features, investments on railways in Turkey remained quite restricted in comparison to other European countries. The initial construction costs of railways are high and developing its signaling system also requires a lot of attention. Signaling system ...

Beginning approximately 4 years after the Chernobyl nuclear accident a steady increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer was observed in children and adolescents of the Bryansk Oblast, which received the highest level of radionuclide contaminants in Russia. We examined the spatial relationship between the residence location of patients with identified thyroid cancer (0-18 years old at the time...